Saudi Authorities have decided to remove the lashes from the list of possible punishments for committing illegal acts. This is with reference to the materials of the Supreme court of the Kingdom, Reuters reported on Friday, April 24.
According to preliminary data, now this punishment is replaced with fines or imprisonment. Also in court documents States that the decision is a continuation of the reforms in the sphere of human rights, which are held in the country under the leadership of king Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud and crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman al-Saud.
the Strictness of religious observance in Saudi Arabia was strengthened in the early 1980-ies on the background of a sharp Islamist sentiments in the region and in connection with the need to confront Iran, which in 1979 after the coming to power of the Shiites began to challenge the dominance of Saudi Arabia in the Muslim world.
Starting in 2015, the Kingdom’s reforms in the field of human rights, and the country has stated that it gradually began to free himself from the influence of religious dogma in public life. At the end of December 2019, the government of Saudi Arabia imposed a ban on early marriage in October 2019 Kingdom were first allowed women to serve in the army.
Previously, women were allowed to drive cars, visit the gymnasiums and football stadiums, work in restaurants and to open your own business and to choose their own method of childbirth, and to consent to the operation.
Saudi Arabia and Iran are again at loggerheads. They have long considered each other enemies, but recently the situation became much more tense.
